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COMMENTS
As time goes, 45 years is something like a
speck of dust in an attic. But, in the affairs of
man, 45 years can be a mighty important in
terval. Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, president-elect
of the American Medical Association and son of
the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, former Stand
ford president, who was president of the Ameri
can Medical Association 45 years ago writes of
the developments in medicine since the time of
his father.
He says, “More has been learned in medicine
in this time than was learned throughout history
up to 1923.” Even in 1923, surgical treatment
was in large part limited to removal of dis
eased organs, and drugs by present standards were
indeed primitive and were confined to simple
sedatives, quinine, arsenicals and salvarsan. Med
ical practice was carried on largely by the solo
general practioner. Since 1923, there has been
an explosion of knowledge. And with it, again
in the words of Dr. Wilbur, ”. . .came the great
era of specialization. ... In 1968 we speak of a
health care ‘industry.’ With almost five million
people engaged in it, it is now the third largest
A reader has sent us a copy of a letter written
by a Congressman who jumped down the throat
of an editor who questioned the certainty of pay
ment of promised benefits under the Social Se
curity Act.
The unhappy fact is that the Congressman sim
ply repeats official government pronouncements on
the subject, ignoring completely the credibility
gap which Washington bureaucracy has created.
Here are some facts;
From the beginning, the Social Security Act
has provided that all collections not needed for
immediate expenses must be invested in government
bonds, or government guaranteed bonds.
What was first designated as a ‘‘Reserve Ac
count,” was later called a “trust fund," to in
crease public confidence. Recently it was stated
officially that there are about $23 billion in the
‘‘trust fund.” Actually, these are bonds. Gov
ernment bonds. They are government promises
to pay. To pay, the Government will have to re
deem the bonds—bv sale of new bonds for casli—
or, Congress wilj have to appropriate money out
of current revenues to redeem the bonds.
Further, the Supreme Court of the United States
Environmental Science Services?
I
We really should make a contest out of tills. A
guessing game. Instead, we’ll give you the answer
right off. What do you suppose the Environmental
Science Services Administration in Washington,
D. C. is?
Would you believe the Weather Bureau?
On October 31—and mark that date well, it must
be significant — Robert M. White of the afore
mentioned Environmental Science Services Admini
stration told a House subcommittee that given
enough money, and ten years, the Weather Bureau
would be able to predict the weather accurately
for as much as a week in advance. As of now,
this Mr. White said, the bureau can make an
“accurate prediction” for 48 hours, a “useful
prediction” for as much as three or four days.
That’s what the man said.
It’s not for us to question the capability of the
Weather Bureau over the next ten years. Given
enough money, any crew that could come up with
a name like Environmental Science Services Ad
ministration for a weatherman could surely do
the impossible in a decade or less.
It is necessary to point out, however, that the
With gold so much in the news these days,
and the Administration insisting that Congress re
move the gold from beneath our currency, it may
be instructive to review how this nightmare started.
Unhappily, the lesson isn’t taught in history classes
these days. It went like this:
On March 4, 1933, President Franklin D. Roose
velt closed all banks in the United States by
invoking war powers granted by Congress in the
Trading With the Enemy Act of World War L
On March 9, five days later, Congress passed
the Emergency Banking Act which legalized what
tiie President had done, and further provided for
control over “all transactions in foreign exchange”
and “transfers of credit between, or payments by,
banking institutions.”
On April 5, approximately one month later, the
President issued an executive order making owner
ship, possession or use of monetary gold a crime.
Citizens were ordered to deliver all gold to their
banks. <
On May 22 of the same year, by an amendment
to an agriculture bill, the President was authorized
to reduce the gold in a dollar.
On October 22, in a fireside chat, the President
said he had authorized the Reconstruction Finance
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The Medical Revolution
A Perilous Theory
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in the nation. The amount spent for its ‘pro
ducts’ in 1967 is estimated at 50 billion dollars.
Manned in large part by nonphysicians, the health
care industry had within it some 75 to 100 dif
ferent categories of workers, known by physicians
as"allied health professions and services.*'
Forty-five years lias seen unprecedented ad
vances in the art of medicine and medical sc
ience. These advances have brought problems,
as well as blessings. One of the gravest is high
and rising medical care costs. Dr. Wilbur be
lieves these costs can best be met on the in
surance principle, and cites the growth of vol
untary health insurance since World War 11.
‘‘Medical care,” he says, “is now commonly
looked upon as a basic right. So are food, hous
ing, and clothing. But this does not mean that
the government should pay for them if the in
dividual or family is able to do so.” The plain
fact is that in medicine as elsewhere the fund
amental tenet of self-government holds true. The
state should only do for the people what they
cannot do for themselves.
has held that the Social Security tax on employees
is an income tax, based on his wages, to be with
held from his wages by the employer and re
mitted to the Collector of Internal Revenue. The
tax on employers is an excise tax, equal in am
ount to the employee tax, and also based on wages.
The Court also held, in Flemming vs. Nestor,
363 US 603, that “accrued property rights” are
not inherent in the Act.
A major flaw of 'the original Act was para
graph 1104, which expressly reserved to Congress
the ‘‘right to alter, amend or repeal any provision”
of the Act. Such a provision makes meaningless
any statement in the Act, its amendments or re
visions. Social Security is what the Congress
says that it is at any given time. Just that and
nothing more.
Each Congress is going to have to tax the wages
of the workers who elect them in order to re
deem Government bonds and meet Social Security
benefits promised. The Congressman, and the
Government, presume that the working taxpayer
will always elect a Congress willing to tax and
give. It is a perilous theory.
Washington, D. C. Weather forecast for Tuesday,
October 31, was — rain in the morning.
It dawned clear, cloudless, and rainless.
It may be that the fact that it was Halloween
had something to do with the bureau’s inability
to make an “accurate prediction” for that 48
hours.
Come to think of it, on reading the account of
Mr. White’s testimony again, it is clear that he
did not specify precisely where the Environ
mental Science Services Administration could
make its ‘‘accurate prediction” for 48 hours. We
know from experience that it isn’t in this area.
And it couldn’t do it in Washington.
Maybe the South Pole? The chances ought to be
pretty good there.
How much money would it take to perfect this
prediction technique over the next ten years? On
that there is no precise prediction.
Environmental Science Services Administration
is concerned with predicting weather, not money.
Only a nut would predict how much money he will
need ten years from now. Or even next year, with
inflation rampant.
Corporation to buy gold at variable prices, de
termined by the President. Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau has described how the price was
determined from day to day. Rewrote, in Collier’s
magazine, October 25, 1947:
“Every morning Jesse Jones and I would meet
with George Warren in the President’s bedroom
to set the price of gold. Franklin Roosevelt would
lie comfortably on his old-fashioned three-quarter
mahogany bed . . . The actual price . . . made
little difference . . . One day when I must tiave
come in more than usually worried about the state
of the world, we were planning an increase of
from 19 to 22 cents. Roosevelt took one look
at me, and suggested a rise of 21 cents. ‘lt’s
a lucky number,’ the President said with a laugh,
'because it’s three times seven.’ I noted in my
diary at this time, ‘if anybody ever knew how
we really set the price of gold ... I tiiink they
would really be frightened.’ ”
On January 30, 1934, Roosevelt ended day-to
day operations. He reduced the gold in the US
dollar by 40 percent. An ounce of gold was
thereupon worth $35 in paper dollars, instead of
$20.67. The price has not been changed since.
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OCR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
THE LORD OF LIFE AND DEATH
Devotional Reading: John 14:
1-11
Memory Selection: I am the
resurrection and the life; he who
believes in me, though he die,
yet shall he live, and whoever
lives and believes in me shall
never die. John 11: 25-26.
Intermediate- Senior Topic:
When Trouble Comes.
Young People - Adult Topic:
Eternal Life for Mortal Man.
The topic for this quarterly
series of lessons is “John-Gos
pel of Eternal Life.” Tn his con
versation with Nicodemus, Jesus
had insisted that both this distin
guished teacher and anyone who
would come to a saving knowledge
of truth must be “born again.”
Thus did he emphasize the in
ner quality of spiritual life that is
truly saving in character.
In today’s lesson we look be
yond earthly life to life eternal.
Jesus is the Saviour of the lost.
He is that true bread which came
down from heaven. He is the light
of the world. He is the Good Shep
herd.
We observe him in those hea
venly dimensions which we de
scribe by saying that he is the
Ixtrd of life and death. He was to
encounter death in his own ex
perience very shortly. In to
day’s lesson we see him standing
before the experience of death
the death of a friend- and over
whelming it by his supernatural
and eternal power.
One of the things about which
we glory most in the career and
personality of Christ is that he
was in every way a human being.
He was, to be sure, a Divine Be
ing, the incarnation of God Him
self. But we must never forget
that although he was divine on
one side of his life he was dis
tinctly human on the other. We
find him hungering and thirsting
as any human would. He suffered
on the cross. He grieved both
over the suffering of his friends
Rev. George Home
Church of the Good Shepherd
I dislike starting anything with
a quotation from scripture, be
cause unfortunately too often it
drives peoples eyes away, but 1
need to in order to get these
few words to you started. Christ
said “Be ye perfect.” For much
of my life this has been a pretty
stupid piece of advice, and I
expect it has been for you too.
How in the world can anyone be
perfect, is the question I have
often asked myself, and right
quickly the answer has come
back - you can’t - so why worry
about it. It is nice to know
something for sure once in a
while isn’t it? The trouble with
being satisfied with this answer
is that I have often found that
by accepting this so easily I
have also noted that it is ex
tremely easy to avoid any at
tempt at perfectness. The only
problem was that I was still
confronted with the command,
“Be ye perfect.”
Just recently however a whole
new light was shed for me on
this matter of perfectness by
a different translation of Paul’s
Epistles. Called the Cotton Patch
version of Paul’s Epistles, writ
ten by Clarence Jordan. In this
the author uses the word Mat
urity in place of the word per
fect. Now if you are like me
—maturity is something that I
can understand, and to reach for
maturity is reasonable and rea
listic.
Perfectness seemed unrealis
tic, maturity does not. As I
began thinking in terms of ma
turity I began to think of those
that I depend upon, those that I
turn to in times of trouble, and
they are mature or maturing
people. They are not perfect
but they are sound - developed
people in mind, body and spirit
whose thoughts and words and
actions I trust. Moreoever it is
exciting to be in their presence.
And I wonder now if this is not
what attracted people to the man
Jesus and I wonder too if this
feaagCIENCE
|w^T op ic s
BIG QUAKE PREDICTED
TO SHAKE CALIFORNIA
A CATASTROPHIC EARTH
QUAKE is “inevitable” before
long in central California, says
a University of Michigan physi
cist. He predicts it will be at
least as severe as the one that
leveled San Francisco in 1906.
He forecasts the quake “some
time in the next 10 to 20 years,
possibly even tomorrow,” The
San Andreas fault, which runs
along the California coastline,
is responsible for the 1906 earth
quake and for dozens of lesser
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and the terrifying experience th
rough which he himself must
pass on the cross.
In today’s lesson we get an
appealing and winsome insight
into the humanity of Jesus as we
observe his friendship for a fam
ily consisting of Lazarus of Beth
any and his two sisters, Mary and
Martha. This God-Man, who had
come into the world to redeem
fallen humanity from its sin,
seemed to have felt the hospital
ity of the Bethany home of Laza
rus and his sisters particularly
appealing. We read late r (John 12:
1-3) that Mary on one occasion
took “a pound of ointment of
spikenard, very costly, and an
ointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped
his feet with her hair: and the
house was filled with the odour of
the ointment.” This was a ges
ture of affection and deep respect
which Mary made to this man in
whom they had such complete
trust.
Jesus, by his presence in the
Bethany home, seemed to bring
radiance to an harmonious house
hold. He knew these three friends
in hours of cheerfulness and joy.
Today’s lesson tells us of his
overwhelming experience with
them in a season of sorrow.
We so often see Jesus coming
in contact with sin, forgiving it,
changing evil disposition into the
desire on the part of the sinner
for righteous living and faith.
Today we observe Jesus coming
into the home of people who lived
wholesome and exalted lives.
Martha was the practical type who
on one occasion asked Jesus to
rebuke her sister Mary because
Mary sat at the feet of Jesus lis
tening to his words of life and left
Martha to prepare dinner (Luke
10; 38-42). But on that occasion
Jesus lovingly rebuked Martha,
declaring that Mary had chosen
the better part-namely, listening
to words regarding eternal truth
which should not be taken away
from her.
is not the attraction he holds
for me now’. He was a loyal
person, concerned with those
about Him —his judgement was
sound-full of understanding and
tenderness - he was objective -
inspired hope — I could go on
and on. He was really mature.
He was a full man. He did not
play such childish games I don’t
love you because you don’t love
me. Or—l will not share my
life with you because you will
not share your life with me. He
was not a “you scratch my back
and I will scratch yours” type
of guy. He did not selfishly
ignore the needs of others as
children so often do. He did
not evade responsibility for his
actions, a game at which child
ren are past masters. He did
not throw a tantrum when he did
not get his way. As I have said
he was a mature man and said
that man was meant to become
mature as it was the only way to
live.
Today it is more important
than it has ever been that you
and I grow up and for three
reasons. One if you are a par
ent as I am, how are our child
ren going to grow up without hav
ing mature parents? Dr. Messer
of Emory calls this the age of
the Child and I expect it is —
for far too many parents are
children themselves. Parents
must grow up if they expect to
have mature children.
Secondly we talk a lot about
freedom but there is no free
dom without maturity. Child
ishness is slavery, immaturity
is slavery, for in childishness
and immaturity we can never
freely exercise all the poten
tialities that we have been given.
Thirdly, as Christians we must
grow up — mature -for it is
not children who really exhibit
the love of God in its fullness,
but mature people. The world
cannot hear the Gospel in the*
selfish cry of, you treat me fair
ly and I will treat you fairly
children. It can hear it only
from those who are walking ma
turely with the man Jesus.
tremors since then. Most ma
jor quakes in this system occur
about every 50 years. The longer
the period between major tre
mors, the more severe they tend
to be. It has been 62 years since
the last big earthquake shook
California.
VIDEOTAPE REPLAYS are
giving students at Georgia Tech
a chance “to see themselves
as others see them.” The tapes
are being used extensively by
public speaking and industrial en
gineering classes and also play
a role in data acquisition. The
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SENATOR
PENNINGTON
At The Capitol
The second week of recess for
the 1968 Georgia General Assem
bly was another full work week
for members of the legislature.
The thirty-five member Senate
Appropriations Committee work
ed all week and into the night
Friday examining every item of
the record Appropriations Bill
which passed the Hbuse last week.
High on the priority list of items
to be retained were those re
lating to Georgia Agriculture.
Senator Brooks Pennington of
Madison, Georgia, a member of
the Committee, stated: “Every
effort possible is being made to
keep the expenditures for the
1969 fiscal year at an absolute
minimum without sacrificing the
needed services to the citizens of
Georgia.”
The Industry and Labor Com
mittee of the Senate held pub
lic hearings at the Capitol on
the controversial “House Bill
926”, which in effect would ab
olish the waiting period of one
week before receiving Work
man’s Compensation benefits.
Approximately 300 people ap
peared at the Capitol on Tues
day to speak in favor of the bill
and on Thursday a similar num
ber came to speak before the
Committee against its passage.
The Senate Agriculture Com
mittee worked out further details
of the Agricultural Commodities
Commission legislation and
scheduled sessions next week on
the bill to exempt farm equip
ment and poultry processing
equipment from sales tax.
Senator Pennington, who is
Chairman of the Senate Agricul
ture Committee, contacted mem
bers of Congress and Senator
Russell asking their assistance
on helping to stop the acquisi
tion by the federal government of
additional land in Jasper and
Jones County. Senator Penning
ton said: “The government al
ready owns over one-third of the
land in this area and the land
and the loss of another one thou
sand acres from the tax digest
would mean economic disaster—
especially in view of the pre
sent tax re-evaluation programs
now being instituted in these
two counties.”
In addition to other duties, Sen
ator Pennington had one of the
heaviest speaking schedules of
any state official. Fourteen
speeches were scheduled in less
than three weeks for the busy
Senator. These included an add
ress to the Directors of the
Georgia Crop Improvement As
sociation at the College of Ag
riculture in Athens on Monday,
February 19th, and a speech at
the dedication of Putnam Gen
eral Hospital in Eatonton on the
25th. Senator Pennington was an
honored guest along with Senator
Herman Talmadge at the cere
mony and luncheon for the hos
pital dedication.
On next week’s agenda are in
cluded addresses to the South
Fulton Farm Bureau, the Mon
roe Pilot Club and the Georgia
Agri-Business Council in Atlan
ta. Highspot of the week for the
Senator, however, was being a
guest at the annual Father-Son
Night Future Farmers of Amer
ica Banquet on Thursday, Feb
ruary 22nd, in Madison.
PARENT-TEACHER
REPORT
By Mrs. Robert I. Burall
Tenth District Director
Georgia Congress of Parents
and Teachers
In all good Faith we have made
an excellent begining for another
year of PTA work. The con
tinuing concern being where
children come first.
When Parents and Teachers
study their job, know our PTA
bylaws and make every effort
to see and act upon the needs
of the critical Issues in our
Democracy, then we know the
past year has been meaningful
and rewarding because we have a
better understanding of the Pol
icies and Procedures of the PTA
movement.
We must help parents to keep
pace with changes among the
youth, and never let them for
get that children must be guid
ed as they grow, begining at the
earliest age.
When I look around over the
Tenth District, I am very proud
of the PTA work that is taking
place within the Communities, as
well as in the schools, for it
shows concern for all children
and youth. Not just a privi
leged few.
Our PTA Tenth District Spring
Conference’s theme is: “AC
CEPTING COMMUNITY RE
SPONSIBILITY.” Start making
plans to attend this most impor
tant conference now. It will be
held at Monroe, in the First
Methodist Church, March 5,
1968. There will be more about
our Spring Conference in my ar
ticle next week. Watch for it.
Every local unit within the
Tenth District should be repre
sented.
speech students are spottingper
formance flaws that might other
wise have remained unnoticed;
student engineers are able to view
themselves making oral present
ations. The engineering students
are also using the videotapes to
conduct research; they recently
investigated the effects of instal
ling closed-circuit television in a
factory.
Georgia, “The Empire State of
the South,” is still fumbling a
round in the dark ages in regards
to Her court system. The cit
izenry and bar association lead
ers thus far have contributed
more lip service than construc
tive action toward change.
In 1910 Georgia Supreme Court
Justic Andrew J. Cobb told the
Georgia Bar Association that
“there have been additions, but
no revision” of the judicial sys
tem since 1800; “Our system
needs revision; a thorough re
vision; a revision from top to bot
tom."
Two years have passed since
the meeting of the American Jud
icature Society Citizens’Confer
ence in Atlanta and a constitu
tional amendment still awaits ac
tion in the Georgia General Ass
embly. Court reform in Georgia,
just as in many of Her sister
Southern states, is like trying to
budge a balking donkey.
Even if this amendment, which
calls for a court system reform
were passed during this session
of the General Assembly—and it
seems unlikely that it will be—
it would still have to be approved
by the people. How slow blind
justice moves!
There has been a move by the
leaders of the bar association in
Georgia to put weight behind a
court reform proposal that would
eliminate the current mess and
simplify the system. The great
est need, however, is citizen in
terest to prod legislators into ac
tion during the 1968 legislative
session.
The Citizens’ Conference in
1966, which made the only mean
ingful study of the Georgia court
system, has not been supplement
ed with further information about
Layona Glenn
Says . . .
(Editor’s Note: Methodist
missionary emeritus and col
umnist for four newspapers, in
cluding The Covington News, will
celebrate her 102nd birthday on
March 8, at Wesley Woods Apts.,
1825 Clifton Road, N. E., At
lanta, 30329, where she resides
between visits with friends and
speaking engagements.)
We call ourselves a Chris
tian Nation, and send Mission
aries out to other peoples not
withstanding the mess we make
of our own government, and we
wonder what is ahead of us and
what we should do to meet it.
If we turn to the Bible, and II
Chron. 7:14 we can find the ans
wer: as God through His prophet
gave it to Solomon when he asked
for guidance:
“If my people, who are called
by my name, shall humble them
selves, and pray and seek my
face, and turn from their wicked
ways; THEN will I hear from hea
ven and will forgive their sin, and
will heal their land But, if ye
turn away and forsake my statutes
and my commandments, which I
have set before you, and go and
serve other gods, and worship
them will I pluck them up by the
roots out of my land which I have
given them.”
THE MAJOR OITENSIVE and reign ol terror launched
by the Communists in Viet Nam ought to dispel any thoughts
that they are interested in talking peace at this time.
In fact, while the Hanoi regime was indicating that it might
be willing to negotiate if the United States stopped bombing
raids, the Communists were planning and mobilizing for their
offensive.
And there are indications that the Communists will launch
a second major attack in the near future, according to the Secre
tary of State.
All THIS SI RENG'I HENS my belief that the wai in Viet
Nam must be prosecuted more vigorously and instead of relax
ing our military efforts we must expand and intensity them.
I don’t believe the Communists want to talk peace, and I
don’t believe they will come to the conference table so long as
they have the United States fighting the war on their terms.
We all want to see a peaceful and honorable settlement as
soon as possible. We especially want to end the loss of American
lives. But 1 don’t think peace will come unless and until we
overcome Communist force with superior force, which we have,
and demonstrate to the Hanoi regime that continued aggression
is futile.
The time for debate on the merits or the demerits of the
war has passed. Whether we like it or not. we are heavily com
mitted in Viet Nam by virtue ol word ami deed by the Congress
and the Administration. But more important, we are committed
because we have more than 51(1.000 American soldiers in the
battlefield who deserve all the support and protection we can
give them. Whatever our course ol action, their lives and safetv
must be our first concern.
THE WAV TO (JET the Communists to the conference
table is to make them want to talk peace Ihe wav Io make
them want peace is tor the United States to start fighting this
war like we mean to win it. just like we have done in every
other war in which we have been involved.
The wav to insure the safetv of our fighting men ami bring
them home as quickly as possible is to deslrov both the will
ami abililv of Hanoi to support and wag; war
Thursday, February 29, 1968
PEOPLE MUST PUSH
FOR COURT REFORM
By: Leo S. Mallard
the courts in any kind of additional
study, reform proposal, or in
vestigation.
Therefore, in Georgia we still
plod along with our 14 different
kinds of courts operating inde
pendently and without supervision
in most cases. Our Supreme
Court holds very little or no pow
er over most of the other courts.
In Georgia, the only way
to remove a judge isby impeach
ment and this is unheard of. To
make matters worse, there is no
mandatory retirement age for the
“Saints on the Bench.”
Seminars for judges are held,
but attendance is not required;
there is no court administrator;
no judicial council exists; and
there isn’t even an official judges
conference.
Presently our complex courts
system is made us of the follow
ing: courts of ordinary, munci
pal courts, recorder courts, po
lice courts, mayors’ courts, city
courts, county courts, and small
claims courts. We also have an
intermediate court of appeals
which was established in 1906.
All of the Southeastern states
(North Carolina soon to be the ex
ception) are plagued with anti
quated court systems, but Geor
gia is still at the bottom of the
list in seeking constructive ac
tion for court reform to meet the
needs of people living in our Space
Age Society.
Only an organized effort by the
people will kindle the fire of en
thusiasm under legislators to
bring about court reform. The
Georgia Bar Association cannot
do the job alone. This is as it
should be, for these are our
courts and they rule and pass
judgment on our people.
As a place of refuge God gave
to our fore-fathers this great land
which we proudly call “The land
of the free, and the home of the
brave, ” and they laid the foun
dations of our nation on their faith
in Him, even stamping on their
currency: “In God we trust.”
He blessed our nation, and helped
to make of it the most powerful
nation on earth.
Now that we have grown rich
and powerful some of our leaders
would have us turn out backs on
God, leave off teachingour child
ren to love and serve Him, throw
His word out ofour schools, try to
fly to the moon, and conquer
space, thinking that they are
smart enough to direct other
worlds, even though they are
making such a failure of manag
ing this one!
We stand amazed and wonder
what is ahead of us, and what we
can do to avoid utter ruin. Our
Christian churches have the ans
wer, in their hands, and if they
WILL they can use their power
to petition, and God will answer
their prayer, and establish our
nation on the firm foundation, of
His word.
Let us who claim to be Chris
tians turn to our heavely Father
and PRAY.
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE